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Echidnine :: Echidnine (n.) The clear, viscid fluid secreted by the poison glands of certain serpents; also, a nitrogenous base contained in this, and supposed to be the active poisonous principle of the virus..

Virus :: Virus (v. i.) The special contagion, inappreciable to the senses and acting in exceedingly minute quantities, by which a disease is introduced into the organism and maintained there..

Vaccine :: Vaccine (a.) Of or pertaining to cows; pertaining to, derived from, or caused by, vaccinia; as, vaccine virus; the vaccine disease..

Entheic :: Entheic (a.) Caused by a morbifie virus implanted in the system; as, an enthetic disease like syphilis..

Vaccine :: Vaccine (n.) The virus of vaccinia used in vaccination.

Vaccinate :: Vaccinate (v. t.) To inoculate with the cowpox by means of a virus, called vaccine, taken either directly or indirectly from cows..

Retrovaccination :: Retrovaccination (n.) The inoculation of a cow with human vaccine virus.

Contagious :: Contagious (a.) Communicable by contact, by a virus, or by a bodily exhalation; catching; as, a contagious disease..

Take :: Take (v. i.) To take hold; to fix upon anything; to have the natural or intended effect; to accomplish a purpose; as, he was inoculated, but the virus did not take..

Pasteurism :: Pasteurism (n.) A method of treatment, devised by Pasteur, for preventing certain diseases, as hydrophobia, by successive inoculations with an attenuated virus of gradually increasing strength..

Venereal :: Venereal (a.) Arising from sexual intercourse; as, a venereal disease; venereal virus or poison..

Attenuation :: Attenuation (n.) The process of weakening in intensity; diminution of virulence; as, the attenuation of virus..

Contagion :: Contagion (n.) That which serves as a medium or agency to transmit disease; a virus produced by, or exhalation proceeding from, a diseased person, and capable of reproducing the disease..

Virus :: Virus (v. i.) Fig.: Any morbid corrupting quality in intellectual or moral conditions; something that poisons the mind or the soul; as, the virus of obscene books..

Isopathy :: Isopathy (n.) The system which undertakes to cure a disease by means of the virus of the same disease.

Autopsorin :: Autopsorin (n.) That which is given under the doctrine of administering a patient's own virus.

Syphilize :: Syphilization (n.) Inoculation with the syphilitic virus, especially when employed as a preventive measure, like vaccination..

Inoculate :: Inoculate (v. t.) To communicate a disease to ( a person ) by inserting infectious matter in the skin or flesh; as, to inoculate a person with the virus of smallpox,rabies, etc. See Vaccinate..

Virus :: Virus (v. i.) Contagious or poisonous matter, as of specific ulcers, the bite of snakes, etc.; -- applied to organic poisons..

Rabid :: Rabid (n.) Of or pertaining to rabies, or hydrophobia; as, rabid virus..

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